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OP-ED / ASIA Originally published in The Diplomat Magazine Alan Keenan Senior Analyst, Sri Lanka In January 2015, the shock electoral defeat of President Mahinda Rajapaksa by his former ally, Maithripala Sirisena, rescued Sri Lanka from a slide into increasingly harsh nationalist authoritarianism. The victory of a broad coalition representing Sinhalese, Tamils, and Muslims gave hope that the